Turmoil in kitchen market Essential prices skyrocketing

Staff Reporter :
The prices of sugar and edible oil have reached highest in all time in the country’s history. The price of vegetables, fish, meat and other daily essentials did not showing any sigh of reduce. Moreover, the prices of ginger and cumin went beyond ahead of holy Eid ul Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslim community.
After visiting capital’s few kitchen and spice market it was seen that the price of ginger and cumin have increased abnormally. Besides, other essentials price remained still high in price.

The price of onion again hiked by Tk10 and being sold at Tk80. There is no ginger is being sold less than Tk300. Good qualities Chinese ginger is being sold at Tk400. Two weeks earlier these products price were half comparing current price.

On the other hand, the price of cumin has increased by Tk300 per kilogram and being sold at Tk900 in the spice market while garlic is being sold at Tk180. The essential item in Bengali cuisine green chili is also soaring and being sold at Tk200 to Tk220.

The traders are showing causes of increasing the essentials price as the import remain shut and various another reasons.
Ahasanul Haque, a medical representative talked with the New Nation saying that a dishonest businessmen syndicate increased the product price when it demands rose in the market. The Holy Eid ul Azha is

coming, ahead of this the traders increased the price of spices more than twice or thrice.
He said the government is indifferent in this matter. As a result, the businessmen are behaving desperately by increasing essentials price.
On the other hand, the price of chickens (broiler, sonali, popularly known as Pakistani cock), beef still remain high which was reached highest before the holy Eid.
The chickens price did not decreased which was increased during Eid and now broiler chicken is being sold at Tk240 to Tk250 and sonali at Tk320 to Tk330. The egg is being sold at Tk 145 to Tk150 per dozen by increasing Tk10.

Akramul Islam, a private employee, who used to buy daily essentials for whole month in once said kitchen market is seem a place of fear for middle income group people. They are regularly cutting the items from the list and remain most essential things. Still it is impossible to survive.
He continued middle class now start to sacrifice food quality leaving pricy food to cheap one. As a result the protein and vitamin are automatically remove from the food chart.

The price of potato, the mostly used vegetable in the Bengali kitchen, have also increased remarkably as per kg potato is being sold at Tk 40 whereas before Eid it was sold at Tk20 to Tk25.

Sohel, a customer from capital Karwan bazaar said we heard that the potato had produced huge. But it price has increased more considering other product. It’s all about the businessmen manipulation.

On the other hand, there is no good news from the vegetable market as almost all vegetables are selling at high price. It is hard to believe that papaya is being sold at Tk60.
The others-bitter gourd is being sold at Tk80 to Tk100, ladies finger at Tk60 to Tk70, drum stick at Tk120 to Tk140, brinjal at Tk80 to Tk100.